Tlilhuicol (MH602r)

Tlilhuicol (MH602r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlilhuicol (“Little Black Jug,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a small jug that is painted black. It has a flared mouth and large, curving handle that has been left white.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

diego tlilhuicol

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Diego Tlilhuicol

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Pottery, Earthenware

Colors:

black

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

cerámicas, color negro, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlil(li), black or ink, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
huicol(li), small jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huicolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Jarrillo Negro

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 602r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=283&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: